Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Kindness, Ive discovered, is everything in life.”

“If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.”

“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.”

“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also car...”

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ”

“When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.”

“We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.”

“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, pr...”

“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have...”

“But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express....”

“Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.”

“Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?”

“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separate...”

“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”

“We must believe in free will, we have no choice.”

“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other ...”

“When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whol...”